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Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1923, Page 2

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<► AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAM.E ASSOCIATION. CRIME WAVE. SPECIAL GUARDS FOR BAT*K^. NEW YORK, March 31. A recuner.ee of the crime wave in New York has resulted in an order that ever member of the police force must take up patrol work. All vacations have Been suspended and special guards have been ordered to protect the banks and business houses. The entire police strength is being held on emergency duty both day and night. These measures following an axtraordinarv numlter of murders, robberies, hold-ups and assaults. A “BOOTLEG” RING. NEW YORK, March' 31 A telegram from Indianapolis says that fifty-five of the sixty-two residents of Gary who were charged have been found guilty of conspiracy late the Prohibition Amendment. Among those convicted were the city’s Mayor" Judge and' Sheriff, numerous lawyers and police officials. They will he sentenced oil April 20. REFUGEE PROBLEM. WASHINGTON April 2. Tin, State Department, in a statement summarising identical Notes sent to Britain. France and Italy, concerning the care of the Near East refugees by the Amrt'ican Red Cross points out litat. during the past five months, American relief has been supplied to 868.000 refugees in Greece, in the islands of the Western Mediterranean, and in Turkey, hut the feeding of the great camps of refugees cannot, and should not, continue indefinitely. A solution of the problem cannot lie in any measur.is of temporary relief alone, hut such a disposition of the refugetjjp as will enable them to he absorlted wZ promptly as possible into the normal economic life of the country where they will find themselves. The Red Cross therefore will terminate its emergency relief on June 30th. of next year. ’1 he Eastern relic if continues for children. The problem of finding permanent homes for the refugees will requite the rordial co-opciration of the local authorities where the refugees are situated. and of the Powers whose territorial and other interests in the Moditcranonii make it possible for, them to as-ast. The American relief agencies will be ready to co-operate if a constructive plan can he worked out tor •he apportionment of the task, and lor the gradual solution of the refugee w* Idem.